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A Table for Everyone
Commentators unanimously highlight that the Sabbatical year's produce was for everyone without distinction. Rich owners, servants, hired workers, and even foreign residents had equal rights to the food. As one scholar notes, there was 'no private property' in that year's spontaneous growth, radically leveling social and economic barriers.
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Leviticus
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Albert Barnes
On Leviticus 25:6
18th Century
Theologian
The sabbath of the land shall be meat for you — That is, the produce of the untilled land (its “increase,”Leviticus 25:7) shal…
Charles Ellicott
On Leviticus 25:6
19th Century
Bishop
And the sabbath of the land. That is, the growth or produce during this sabbath of the land. For the figure of speech, see Leviticus 18:38…
Charles Spurgeon
On Leviticus 25:6–7
19th Century
Preacher
There was to be no private property in the spontaneous produce of that year. It was free to everybody; free even to the cattle, which might go and …
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John Gill
On Leviticus 25:6
17th Century
Pastor
And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you
, That is, that which grew up of itself but of the land, or on trees, vines,…
Matthew Henry
On Leviticus 25:1–7
17th Century
Minister
All labor was to cease in the seventh year, just as daily labor on the seventh day. These statutes tell us to beware of covetousness, for a man…